From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 8 21:49:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA07000 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:49:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA06982; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:49:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id FAA13621; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 05:18:39 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199802090418.FAA13621@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Excessive crashing of Netscape? To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 05:18:39 +0100 (MET) Cc: dburr@POBoxes.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Feb 8, 98 09:15:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I just installed Netscape (Communicator 4.04, the dynamically-linked > > FreeBSD binary version) from the ports tree. ... > > On the whole, it seems to work ok; however, sometimes the program dies > > (for no apparent reason) with a SIGBUS. > > Do you have problems with other large programs dying randomly? You could > have some bad SIMMs. I use netscrape 3.04 with no problems. netscape is the program which crashes most on my FreeBSD machines (i guess because i don't run any M$ stuff...). the last 'stable' version i used was perhaps 2.XX, then both 3.XX (netscape and netscape gold) and the communicator 4.XX often crash depending on the content. For some time, i was reliably crashing netscape gold whenever i tried to open the altavista page. With the communicator 4 (which i almost immediately removed) the phenomenon is particularly annoying due to the large memory footprint... cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message